[TexasKamaAina]

As I gain perspective on what a century is...

You and me both. As I age I am always doing mental comparisons such as "let me see, the Civil War was just 84 years before I was born; and Pearl Harbor is 71 years from today. So for kids I see walking around today WWII is just about as distant from them as the Civil War is from me." Makes most of history seem pretty recent.

[DManA]

I do that too. Great exercise to gain perspective.

[ravenwolf]

the Civil War was just 84 years before I was born;

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I had not thought of that, that would make it about 72 years before i was born.

What i have thought about a lot is the scripture that says ( in the last days or end times that knowledge would be increased

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Daniel 12
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

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In our lifetime we have saw it go from the horse and ( in my case wagon days ) we saw the last choo choos and the first stream liners, we saw the first passenger planes and the first jets, i was a teenager when the first TV came out.

Knowledge has been greatly increased and almost every thing has been in our day, it would not surprise me in the least to here that science has increased more since 1948 than every thing in history put together.